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David

About Me

Career, family, kids, travel, weekends at the lake with friends, metal/hardcore music.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Pretty much anyone. I have been blessed with meeting several people in my life who have become life-long friends and I hold them dear to me. I'm always willing to meet those interested in talking about music or furthering their local music scene. I won't add every band that sends me a friends request because I don't want to have tons of people on my friends list that don't know me, I've never heard of, or never worked with. There are simply a lot of bands out there that are just not good, overrated, or have burned bridges with bad attitudes. If you send me a friends request and I like your sound or what you are doing, I will add you. Also, if you are one of those people that need to put some sort of suggestive half-naked picture or one of those cliche'd snapshots of yourself as your profile photo, I won't add you at all. After all, this is my little corner of myspace. Thank you for understanding.

My Blog

Disturbed / Killswitch Engage Meet and Greet - 5/9/09

I had another opportunity to do some pre-show meet and greets with Killswitch Engage at the Des Moines stop of the Music as a Weapon tour. As instructed, myself and a guest were to meet by the box off...
Posted by on Wed, 13 May 2009 14:35:00 GMT

Music as a Weapon 4 / KsE meet and greet

Music as a Weapon 4 kicked off it's 40 date 2009 tour in Waterloo on March 21, 2009. All the headling acts (Disturbed, Killswitch Engage, Lacuna Coil, and Chaimera) I had never seen in concert before....
Posted by on Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:33:00 GMT

Motley Crue in Des Moines

The Crue are probably my all time favorite band. Growing up with their posters on my bedroom wall, I will not miss a chance to see these guys. Nikki Sixx is my childhood idol and I recall dressing as ...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:46:00 GMT

Valentine's Day with A7X, Destrophy, Papa Roach, and Buckcherry in Council Bluffs.

I had arranged a Valentine weekend for Alyson to see her favs Avenged Sevenfold about 3 months in advance as a Birthday gift. I got resevations at a hotel that is attached to the arena and across from...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Feb 2009 06:19:00 GMT

Slipknot concert

The show started like this:  I caught a flight from Washington DC from my business trip and landed in Des Moines at 6:15 pm. I got off the plane, picked up my bags at the carousel, caught the shuttle ...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:51:00 GMT

Avenged Sevenfold / Buckcherry / Shinedown / Saving Abel

Since A7X cancelled their Illinios show Aly and I had free tickets to in September, this show couldn't come fast enough. They have been this household's favorite band for a long time and having t...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:25:00 GMT

Van Halen show

My brother Mitch calls me the night before the show to say he's scored us 15th row center stage tickets for the concert. In actuality, it ended up being 5th row due to the catwalk that extended outwar...
Posted by on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:36:00 GMT

Fair to Midland at the Reverb

Me and Cuban had a couple of tickets to this sold out show at the Reverb. After by-passing about 30 people waiting for standby tickets (sorry Morgan) we walked right in. The place was packed. I knew F...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 06:54:00 GMT

Hangin' with Shadow's Fall

Through absolute luck I ended up spending nearly three hours today with the band before their show at the Val-Air Ballroom. I arrived in the backstage area around 3:00 and vocalist Brian Fair was stan...
Posted by on Fri, 04 May 2007 16:11:00 GMT

Nickelback / Three Days Grace / Breaking Benjamin

Again, I have to thank Steve for the free tickets! You rule bro!  This show was one of the few complete sellouts at the US Cellular center. I've never seen that many people there before. The uppe...
Posted by on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:03:00 GMT